NEWS

   1 (-*- text -*-)
   2 User Visible Changes In Bobot++
   3
   4 IMPORTANT NOTES:
   5   As of version 1.98 unknown_lamer is the new maintainer.  Also as of
   6   version 1.98, you must have Guile 1.5.6+ or 1.6.x in order to
   7   compile scripting support.
   8
   9   As of version 2.2.0 no new updates are promised. I am splitting out
  10   the Parser and a few other well written bits and using them from
  11   Scheme to implement most of the Bobot++ functionality in pure
  12   Scheme. The time spent maintaining this not terribly good C++ (a
  13   good bit of which is my fault due to my inexperience when I began
  14   maintaing Bobot++) is a waste to me now. I would rather be hacking
  15   on a Lisp program instead.
  16
  17   I will still accept patches, and may fix bugs if I have time (and
  18   people report them). I may finish the manual since the scripting
  19   section is all that remains, and that will apply to the new bot as
  20   well.
  21
  22 =====================================================================
  23 ====== The News =====================================================
  24 =====================================================================
  25
  26 Version 2.2.3:
  27 - Building with Guile in a non-standard location now works
  28
  29 Version 2.2.2 (2006-06-28):
  30 - No longer segfaults when loading bobot-utils.scm
  31 - bot:match-to-me produces a valid regexp again
  32 - scripts/uname now properly uses (ice-9 rdelim) instead of redelim
  33 - bot:load now loads files properly
  34
  35 Version 2.2.1 (2006-06-28):
  36 - If the log directory does not exist the bot creates it
  37 - If there are lines with only whitespace on them in the config file
  38   and error message is no longer printed to the log
  39
  40 Version 2.2.0 (2006-05-24):
  41 - Scripting
  42   + Hooks
  43     * hooks/disconnect now takes an additonal argument that specifies
  44       whether the disconnect was intentional or not.
  45     * Added hooks/send/who
  46     * Added hooks/send/whois
  47   + The deprecated scripting procedure and hook names are now in a
  48     `begin-deprecated' block. If your guile is built without
  49     deprecated feature support, they will not be available.
  50   + Renamed Functions
  51     * bot:send-ctcp was renamed to bot:ctcp
  52     * bot:send-ctcp-reply was renamed to bot:ctcp-reply
  53   + New Functions
  54     * bot:who (send WHO request)
  55     * bot:whois (send WHOIS request)
  56   + New Constants
  57     * bot:shit/none, bot:shit/no-op, bot:shit/no-join,
  58       bot:shit/no-deban shit list constants
  59 - Documention
  60   + Reorganized a few sections
  61   + Every hook is now documented
  62   + Using bot section is now much more usable
  63   + Every config file is now documented
  64 - The code was cleaned up a bit
  65
  66 Version 2.1.8:
  67 - Scripting
  68   + Hooks
  69     * Added bot:protection/[none|ban|kick|deop] and bot:aop/[yes|no]
  70       constants to the Scheme scripting interface
  71     * hooks/timer argument is now zero padded instead of space padded
  72       (e.g. "11:01" instead of "11: 1")
  73     * hooks/disconnect is now called when the bot is disconnected from the
  74       server unintentionally (network connection timeout, server died,
  75       etc.)
  76     * hooks/action is now passed the user's nick instead of the full
  77       address like all other hooks
  78   + Message Sending
  79     * Implemented bot:notice
  80     * bot:msg and bot:say may both send to channels and users (instead
  81       of bot:msg for users and bot:say for channels)
  82     * Renamed bot:send-CTCP to bot:send-ctcp
  83     * Added bot:send-ctcp-reply to send a ctcp-reply
  84   + Misc
  85     * Added (bobotpp bot) module that modules may use to gain access
  86       to the bobot++ functions
  87   + Debugging
  88     * The debugging evaluator is now enabled when --debug is passed to
  89       the bot
  90     * New command line option: --debug-scripts enables the debugging
  91       evaluator while running everything else normally
  92     * Merged error handling patch from Dale Smith. This adds detailed
  93       errors and backtraces when --debug/--debug-scripts is passed to
  94       Bobot++.
  95 - Documentation
  96   + Merged documentation patch from Dale Smith (thanks)
  97 - Misc
  98   + NOTICEs and PRIVMSGs are now sent correctly if they contain an
  99     embedded newline
 100   + Max nick length is now configurable via 'maxnicklength' option in
 101     bot.conf (defaults to 9)
 102 - The bot now builds with --disable-scripting again (this is my fault,
 103   I haven't built without it in a long time)
 104
 105
 106 Version 2.1.7:
 107 - Fixed a number of small bugs and corner cases
 108 - Should compile without warnings (GCC 3.4)
 109
 110 Version 2.1.6:
 111 - The String class implementation has been redone and replaced by one
 112   based on std::string (eventually String will be gone entirely, but
 113   it a lot of work)
 114 - Patches from Jos Hulzink <josh@stack.nl> were applied which fix a
 115   few major bugs in the StringTokenizer (thanks)
 116
 117 Version 2.1.5: Cleanups
 118 - A DCC CHAT with the bot may now only be initiated if the user is a
 119   Friend of the bot
 120 - Implemented bot:ctcp-quote
 121 - The Bot Configuration section of the manual has been completed.
 122 - Fixed a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in Utils::strToTime
 123   (if there were more than 512 digits in part of the string form of
 124   the time the buffer would overflow)
 125 - Misc. Bugfixes
 126
 127 Version 2.1.4: DCC Support Enhancements
 128 - Internal Change: DCCConnection is now an abstract class
 129 - Internal Change: DCCChatConnection provides the functionality of
 130   the old DCCConnection so that DCC FILE support can be added
 131 - New Scheme Procedure: (bot:sent-to-me? message), checks to see if a
 132   message was addressed to the bot. This is better than using
 133   bot:match-to-me because the hook will continue to function if the
 134   bot's nick changes. The only downside to using it is that there may
 135   be an increased overhead of calling more hooks than could be called,
 136   but that shouldn't be much of a problem.
 137 - New Scheme Procedure: (bot:change-command-level command level),
 138   changes the level a user command to allow a user of `level' level or
 139   above to run it.
 140
 141 Version 2.1.3: Something
 142 - The flood rate can now be set using !setfloodrate INTEGER. The
 143 default is two messages per second before the bot will ignore
 144 you. (thanks to Björn Gustavsson for requesting this)
 145 - The flood rate may also be set from Scheme using (bot:setfloodrate
 146 integer)
 147 - A very large crash bug has been fixed. Previously, if an undefined
 148 command was called, any attempts to call a subsequent command would
 149 cause the bot to crash. Now the bot doesn't crash.
 150
 151 Version 2.1.2: Llama
 152
 153 - match-to-me and match-not-channel are now bot:match-to-me and
 154   bot:match-not-channel. Just use perl -pi -e
 155   "s/match-to-me/bot:match-to-me" SCRIPTS (change to match-not-channel
 156   for match-not-channel).
 157 - Each script is now loaded into its own module so namespace clashes
 158   should no longer occur
 159 - New procedure: (bot:load-module INTERFACE-SPEC) will load a "bot
 160   module" with the specified INTERFACE-SPEC (e.g. (foo bar)). A bot
 161   module is the same as a system module except that you don't use
 162   define-module to define it. The %bot:loadpath is searched for
 163   INTERFACE-SPEC (when converted to a string) with an extension in
 164   %bot:load-extensions. E.g. (foo bar) becomes "foo/bar".
 165 - New procedure: (bot:use-module INTERFACE-SPEC) is the same as
 166   bot:load-module except it will make the exported bindings from
 167   INTERFACE-SPEC available in the current-module.
 168 - Updated example bot and new example scripts included with the bot.
 169
 170 Version 2.1.1: foom
 171
 172 - Host masks are now case insensitive when matched. At least one other
 173   person thought this was a good idea since IRC is case preserving but
 174   not case sensitive.
 175 - You can now "name" a hook using an extra arg to bot:addhook. This
 176   name can be used to have multiple hooks of the same type with the
 177   same regexp. The default name is "DEFAULT" so don't use that as the
 178   name for your hooks.
 179 - Logging now works again (oops, I didn't realize I broke it until I
 180   started to work on DCC).
 181 - DCC CHAT now "works." You can connect to the bot and talk to to it
 182   and use Scheme hooks to talk to the user.
 183 - New hooks: hooks/dcc/chat-begin and hooks/dcc/chat-message. These
 184   are called when a new DCC Chat begin and when the user sends a
 185   message.
 186 - New Function: bot:dcc-chat-send TO MESSAGE, sends a MESSAGE to the
 187   person at address TO
 188 - New hooks: hooks/send/... where ... is one of action, ctcp, public,
 189   or message. These are triggered when the bot does an
 190   ACTION, sends a CTCP (_not_ a ctcp-reply), sends a PRIVMSG to a
 191   channel, or sends a PRIVMSG to another user, respectively. There
 192   will be more send hooks added later.
 193 - New hooks: hooks/dcc/chat-begin and
 194   hooks/dcc/chat-message. chat-begin is called when the chat starts
 195   and has one argument: the address (in user!nick@host
 196   format). chat-message has two arguments: from (user!nick@host) and
 197   message, which is the raw message (since there is no real protocol
 198   for DCC). chat-start hooks are matched against the address and
 199   chat-message hooks are matched against the text "ADDRESS MESSAGE"
 200   where ADDRESS is the sender's address and MESSAGE is the message.
 201
 202 Version 2.1.0: Zug Zug
 203 - Hooks can now be fallthrough or non fallthrough. You can set a hooks
 204   priority and whether or not it falls through (i.e. continues hook
 205   matching after it has been executed) using two optional args to
 206   (bot-addhook). The new args are pri (integer priority) and fallthru
 207   (#t or #f) and are at the end. Higher priority hooks are executed
 208   before lower priority hooks, and fallthrough hooks are executed
 209   before non-fallthrough hooks.
 210 - The default config is read from ~/.bobotpp/config/default/ or
 211   /etc/bobotpp/default/ if the user config is not found. Put your
 212   default config in either dir. You may also specify a specific config
 213   under these dirs using the --config or -c arg to bobotpp (see
 214   bobotpp --help for the full list of commands you may use and how to
 215   use them).
 216 - Scripts are now stored in ~/.bobotpp/scripts/ or
 217   PREFIX/share/bobotpp/scripts/ (where PREFIX is /usr/local unless you
 218   changed it with the --prefix arg to configure). The new function
 219   bot-load will take a filename and load it from these dirs, returning
 220   #t if the file was loaded and #f if it wasn't. You can modify the
 221   search list by appending to %bot-loadpath.
 222 - bobot-utils.scm is now autoloaded, so you don't need to
 223   load it if you want to use its functions.
 224 - Logs are now in ~/.bobotpp/logs/
 225 - bot-* procedures in Scheme are now bot:*. The old bot-* functions
 226   are defined as aliases in bobot-utils.scm
 227 - You can now use lambda's for new commands (oops, I wasn't protecting
 228   the objects from garbage collection)
 229
 230
 231 Version 2.0: Stable release / CVS merges
 232 - Merged stuff from Etienne Bernard's dev tree that he was working on
 233   before I took over (not much)
 234 - bot-adduser and bot-addshit now work from Scheme
 235
 236 Version 1.99: Configure joy
 237 - You can now disable scripting using --disable-scripting or
 238   --enable-scripting=no
 239 - Crypt can also be disabled with --disable-crypt or --enable-crypt=no
 240 - Old hooks behavior has been restored (new hooks are added to the end
 241   of the hooks list and processing does not stop at the first matched
 242   hook). The hook behavior will change radically in 2.1.
 243
 244 Version 1.98: Unknown_lamer made a large number of changes
 245 - Code is now ISO C++ and compiles with GCC 3.1
 246 - Converted makefile system to use automake
 247 - configure.ac now requires autoconf 2.50 (this is only a problem if
 248   you modify it, but I should be the only one doing that)
 249 - Transition to new Guile 1.6 API has begun
 250 - Scripting must always be enabled for now (known "bug")
 251 - first hook of a given type to match is the only hook executed, all
 252   others are ignored. Note that the last hook to be registered is the
 253   first in the list!
 254
 255
 256 Version 1.97: lots of changes, especially guile's scripting support, which
 257               is not yet documented. See in the scripts/ directory for
 258               examples, and in Interp.C (the Startup() function) for the
 259               list of all available commands.
 260
 261 Version 1.30: Syntax change for "channel =" in bot.conf. See examples/bot.conf.
 262               Rewrite of ident/password system. Should be more secure and
 263               flexible.